I woke up to find myself feeling alone, as if something in my life went missing, as if I just lost the final puzzle piece to my world because it decided to float away, to wander away.
I quickly sat up in my bed to find my brother missing, he wasn't in his bed and he wasn't anywhere to be found in our room, I pulled on some clothes and checked the bathroom.
He wasn't there.
I ran down the steps and opened the front door, I took a step forward without letting my eyes adjust to the blinding light to only trip and fall.
Groaning in unison I rose from the floor to find my brother sitting on the steps of our house with his helmet sitting at his side.
His eyes were red and his face were streaked with dried tears.
My heart raced and I did the first thing that came to mind, and hugged him "Tuff why are you out here?" I sniffed back the coming tears.
The sight of my brother crying always made my heart ache, he hardly ever cried, he pretty much never cried...he was tough, he was Tuffnut, my other half.
"Mom said she was going to split us apart if we kept fighting, if we keep causing trouble around town...but it's not that I'd be crying about that you idiot, you just smelled so bad it brought tears to my eyes!"
He reached for his helmet and slowly put it on as if his body was sore and ached, as if it took all the energy he had left just to do so.
"Well I'm sorry I stink but I have a feeling you meant to say that you smell bad, last time I checked I smell like flowers" I wiped at my eyes and swallowed.
"Flowers? You mean shit" he smirked and pushed me playfully, I smiled at him "let's go inside ok?"
"Ok..." I stepped around him, pushed open the door to our house and the two of us made our way in. Not without pushing each other through the door frame and up the stairs and back to our room.
I sat down on the edge of his bed and sighed softly to myself "It's so early in the morning why am I awake? Oh yeah because of you...I...d-did mom just tell you this?" he sat down next to me and nodded.
"She won't split us up, she can't do that, we're twins! Not only that but where would she even send you? She can't keep us apart forever, she could send you to another house but we'd end up together again anyway."
He opened his mouth to talk but closed it, his gaze remained on the floor "she can't split us up" my voice was lowering to a whisper as I thought if it would even be possible.
Could it?
Could we actually be separated for once?
How would I even function without Tuff?
I've never been without him my whole life, we've always been together.
"She said she'd send me to Hiccup's or snot's, and she'd send you to Astrid's house" he shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal, but I knew that deep down he would hate the idea.
Stoick would try to enforce that he couldn't see me, Snot's dad would be more loose or even more strict with him, and Astrid would try to do the same as Hiccup.
We could possible be separated for once...the idea just seemed so...scary.
"Well I guess we just have to please her so that doesn't happen, we can just..behave for today or however long it takes so that way it never happens!"
I stared at him for support but he looked away so I laid back on his bed and sighed. Tears made their way to my eyes but I refused to let them fall, I was a viking and vikings didn't cry.
"She won't split us up, I promised you that Ruff, I promised you that no matter what I'd never let us be apart, I'd never let anything happen to you and if you go...I go."
He laid next to me and closed his eyes "go to sleep...we'll talk about it again in the morning" he whispered before giving me one final punch to the shoulder "or afternoon" we both smiled.